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Magma Sliver

Creature — Sliver3 generic manaRed mana

Where most Slivers grant a static lord buff or a single keyword, this one hands the whole tribe a pump engine that scales with its own population: every Sliver can tap to dump a board-sized power boost onto one attacker. The math compounds in a way the keyword lords do not. Each additional Sliver both raises X and adds another activation, so the final modifier is the product of two numbers climbing together. A modest line of bodies turns one of them into a finisher capable of carrying lethal damage through a clogged ground stall. The catch is structural and elegant: every activation is a tap, so the team that powers the strike is the same team that wanted to attack or block. Funnel all that power into a lone creature and the rest sits tapped out, the swing one-dimensional, easy to fog or chump if the defender has an answer waiting. It rewards committing to the all-in alpha strike rather than a measured assault, which is the temperament a wide Sliver board tends toward anyway. Among the red lords it is the one built for closing rather than accumulating, the haymaker that converts a sticky, populous board into a single fatal arrow.

Magma Sliver (sld)
SLD · #641rare
Pricing
Normal:
Foil: $5.80
Oracle Text

Rules text

All Slivers have "Tap: Target Sliver creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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